7-11: Basin Development Along the Pacific Margin of South America: A Petroleum Exploration Perspective

SILLITOE, Richard H.

7-12: Metallogeny of Major Gold Deposits and Belts in the North and South American Cordillera

PERELLÓ, José

7-13: Metallogeny of Major Copper Deposits and Belts in the North and South American Cordillera

Evening: Introduction to the Wednesday Field Trip: Victor Ramos

WEDNESDAY, 5 APRIL 2006: MID-CONFERENCE FIELD TRIP

Mid-Conference Field Trip:Main and Frontal Andean Cordillera near Southern Boundary of Pampean Shallow Subduction Zone (403)All participants are invited to attend (costs included in the registration fee).Leaders: Members of the University of Buenos Aires Laboratorio de Tectónica Andina group

Travel from Mendoza to Las Cuevas on the Chilean border. the trip will cross the Andes from the western Precordillera to the Main Cordillera at the southern margin of the Chilean flatslab region. See neotectonic features, inverted Triassic normal faults, the Neogene Aconcagua fold and thrust belt and related basin sediments, Mesozoic to Neogene magmatic units, and glacial features. Maximum elevation reached will be less than 3000 meters.